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To: Valin; CholeraJoe
1775 US Army founded

The Army.mil site has a very nice history on the founding of the Continental Army in 1775. I would have posted some on this, but didn't feel I had space to do it justice.

71 posted on 06/14/2004 7:32:13 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Vexillologist to the FReeper Foxhole)
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To: Professional Engineer

Army Slogans that didn't make it
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1. "Kill All That You Can Kill"
2. "Shower With Men"
3. "Knock Up Foreign Broads"
4. "All The Grits You Can Eat"
5. "Be A Flame Thrower, Not A Flame Broiler"
6. "Purple Hearts = Free Beers At Hooters"
7. "Whimsical And Human, Just Like M*A*S*H"
8. "Cubicles Are For Wusses"
9. "Napalm Means Serious BBQ"
10. "Over 1,000,000 Sheared, Beaten, And Worked Into A Sub-Human Fury!"(My favorite)
11. "Totally Beefcake and Proud of It"
12. "Beat Up Sailors"
13. "We Won't Screw Your Mind Up As Bad As The Marines Will"
14. "Kicking Nazi Tail Since 1942"
15. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Accessorize"
16. "Risk Your Life for Freedoms No One Appreciates!"
17. "Play Doom For Real"
18. "Sure Beats Lurnin'!"
19. "Because Terminators Are Real"
20. "Forget Nation-Building -- Let's Destroy One!"

(added by Freepers)
21. "Join the Army - The Judge Says So"(AppyPappy)
22. "Our business is killing people" (Centurion2000 next 3)
23. "We have guns, we'll teach you how to use them"
24. "Get in touch with your inner barbarian."

New Mottos
25. Army: Travel to foreign lands, meet interesting new people, and kill them.
National guard: ... but only on weekends!(coloradan)
26. United States Air Force. Protecting your skies.
Nine to five, Monday through Friday. (TontoKowalski)
27. "Let Us Win Your Hearts and Minds...or We'll Burn Your Damn Huts Down!"(Physicist)
28. Welcome to the Army: Where men are men, and so are the women.(yours truly)
29. "I'd fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel" (Dead Corpse next 4)
30. USMC: "U.ncle S.ams M.arching C.lowns"
31. USMC: "U. S.igned the M.other-effing C.ontract"
32. USMC-Airwing "When it positively, absolutely needs to be destroyed over-night"
33. USMC: "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children" (ArrogantBustard)
34. US ARMY: [U]ncle [S]am [A]in't [R]leased [M]e [Y]et(Badray)
35. NAVY:[N]ever [A]gain [V]olunter [Y]ourself (DirtyDoc)
36. "Nuke em till they glow, shoot em in the dark, and use the bodies to light the perimeter" (anothergrunt)
37. USAF [U] [S]ure [A]re [F]*cked (valin)
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81 posted on 06/14/2004 7:53:29 AM PDT by Valin (Hatred is the coward's revenge)
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To: Professional Engineer

Yep, the Army birthday and/or history would take an entire separate thread....hint, hint.


91 posted on 06/14/2004 8:26:51 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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